| Date | City | State | Employer | Body Part | Event |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2021-06-01 | Nazareth | Pa | Airlite Plastics Company | Lower leg(s) | Struck by falling object or equipment, n.e.c. |
| An employee was removing mold plates from a pallet when the bottom plate fell forward off the pallet and struck her lower left leg, resulting in a fracture that required hospitalization and surgery. | |||||
| 2021-03-31 | Nazareth | Pa | Thermo Fisher Scientific | Leg(s) | Part of occupant’s body caught between vehicle and other object in nonroadway transport incident |
| At about 9:30 a.m. on March 31, 2021, an employee was backing an order picker through a narrow aisle, carrying empty pallets. The top few pallets struck a box, then struck the uprights of the high rack, and then struck the employee's left leg and pinned it against the order picker. The employee suffered severe contusions. | |||||
| 2020-02-05 | Nazareth | Pennsylvania | C.F. Martin & Co., Inc. | Arm(s) | Other fall to lower level |
| An employee was entering the building carrying a briefcase and his lunch when he lost his balance while opening the door. He fell down six outside steps, resulting in a fractured arm and contusions to the head and knee. | |||||
| 2018-09-16 | Nazareth | Pennsylvania | Wegmans | Back, including spine, spinal cord | Overexertion in lifting-single episode |
| While getting an 8-pound container of cider out of a box, an employee felt a pop in the back and became unable to walk. | |||||
| 2018-06-15 | Nazareth | Pennsylvania | Airlite Plastics Company | Fingertip(s) | Caught in running equipment or machinery during maintenance, cleaning |
| An employee was trying to dislodge jammed plastic in a plastic sheet line; a shear in the machine amputated the tips of his left middle and ring fingers. The machine was guarded with a metal grate at the time of the incident. | |||||
| 2018-02-21 | Nazareth | Pennsylvania | Deploy HR, Inc. | Brain | Other fall to lower level |
| An employee was standing on the platform of a stand-up forklift when he passed out, fell off, and hit his head on the floor. He suffered a cut and contusion to the back of the head and was hospitalized with internal bleeding and a blood clot on the brain. | |||||
| 2017-08-15 | Nazareth | Pennsylvania | Kraemer Textiles, Inc. | Fingertip(s) | Caught in running equipment or machinery during regular operation |
| An employee was cutting a fiber wrap off a ring spinner when one of her fingertips became stuck and amputated in the spinner. | |||||
| 2015-09-16 | Nazareth | Pennsylvania | Kraemer Textiles, Inc | Fingertip(s) | Caught in running equipment or machinery during regular operation |
| The employee was running a card machine. When the employee tried to remove build up, string wrapped around his left hand middle finger resulting in a fingertip amputation. | |||||